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Jack VanDerhei is a faculty member at Temple University's School of Business and Management (Department of Risk,
Insurance, and Healthcare Management) and the Research Director of the Employee Benefits Research Institute's Fellows Program. He is currently the project director of both the Defined Contribution and Participant Behavior Research Program and the Retirement Security Research Program.
He has more than 100 publications devoted to employee benefits and insurance but his major areas of research include the financial and fiduciary aspects of private defined benefit and defined contribution retirement plans and Social Security reform. Currently his research agenda primarily focuses on analyzing a proprietary longitudinal database of 10 million 401(k) participants from 30,000 plans. This has already resulted in publications with respect to participant contribution behavior, asset allocation, account balances and loan activity. Future publications will explore retirement preparedness and withdrawal activity.
He is the editor of Benefits Quarterly and Search for a National Retirement Income Policy (University of Pennsylvania Press), a co-author of Pension Planning: Pension, Profit-Sharing, and Other Deferred Compensation Plans (Irwin/McGraw-Hill) and a member of the Advisory Board of the Pension Research Council at the Wharton School and the National Academy of Social Insurance.
He received his BBA and MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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